Shiites killed in Pakistan bus ambush

Shiites killed in Pakistan bus ambush

Pakistani media film a bullet-riddled burning bus in Quetta on October 4, 2011. Gunman attacked a bus carrying Shiite Muslims in Pakistan's insurgency-torn southwestern province of Baluchistan on October 4, killing 13 people and injuring six others, police said.

Police in Pakistan said gunmen today killed at least 18 Shiite Muslims in an ambush on a bus in the mountainous northern district of Kohistan, Agence France Presse reported.

The bus – which had been taking passengers from Rawalpindi to the northern city of Gilgit – was stopped, before the gunmen ordered the passengers off the vehicle.